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Art Exhibition
Teaching Artists: The Practice of Remembering
MCC Lounge
This exhibition is representative of artists whose teaching methodology is based on the process of making art as an intergenerational discussion. Our practice (whatever the form) is the ground from which the awareness of what matters -- the theoretical, political and spiritual --interconnect and emerge in conversation with the communities we seek to address and engage.
Artists contributors: Margaret ‘Quica’ Alarcón, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, Culver City Unified School District ; Yreina D. Cervántez, Chicana/o Studies CSU-Northridge; Celia Herrera Rodriguez, Las Maestras Center/Chicana/o Studies UCSB; Carlos Jackson, Chicana/o Studies UC-Davis; Vreni Michelini–Castillo, Diversity Studies, California College of the Arts, San Francisco; Fan L. Warren, Art Department, Laney College, Oakland.
Art Exhibition
Reconstructing Slippages in Time: Between Home and Here Ann Le
MCC Lounge
Ann Le has always dealt with identity, culture, family history, and the duality of becoming Vietnamese-American in her work. As layers of images are stacked upon one another, Le travels through time, commenting on the idea of home, displacement, separation, and how we embrace and conquer loss. Tragic and Poetic composites are pieced together to unravel narratives which place her Vietnamese-American perspective into a contemporary landscape.
Art Exhibition
Reconstructing Slippages in Time: Between Home and Here
Ann Le
MCC Lounge
Ann Le has always dealt with identity, culture, family history, and the duality of becoming Vietnamese-American in her work. As layers of images are stacked upon one another, Le travels through time, commenting on the idea of home, displacement, separation, and how we embrace and conquer loss. Tragic and Poetic composites are pieced together to unravel narratives which place her Vietnamese-American perspective into a contemporary landscape.
Cup of Culture Series
Reel Bad Arabs
MCC Theater
Featuring acclaimed author Dr. Jack Shaheen, this film explores a long line of degrading images of Arabs; from Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and gun-wielding 'terrorists.” The film offers devastating insights into the origin of these stereotypical images, their development at key points in US history, and why they matter so much today. Shaheen shows how the persistence of these images over time has served to naturalize prejudicial attitudes toward Arabs and Arab culture. 50m
